My brain is numb.
I've been re-going over the Sony Region divisions matter, again, for the umpteenth-billion time (slightly exaggerating), of my own accord without anyone pestering to me look further into the matter. Still as illogical as ever for the most part. Now as for why I intentionally subjected myself to this mental torture and then even admitted to it ou are all likely wondering. Well for the same reason as every other time in the past after the first; Epic Mickey 2. My British friend vacationed in Mexico City back in late September, was there during the whole earthquake ordeal. But while there asked him if he couple possibly see if he could find a copy of Epic Mickey 2 for the Vita. Well he obliged, said it was easy to find, less easy to find a copy complete in the original, non-dog chewed case (weird?). So now I have a copy of said game and see why there has been so much fuss over the checklist and directory.
Now here's the thing, I've had this game in my possession for about three weeks now, and only last night while arranging some of my Vita games on the shelf did I take heed of the Sony internal release code marking on the spine of the game case. Mind this is one of those games where the cart label has a seemingly random numeric only code like the Tell Tale Game carts. And it was right there on the spine, exactly where it should be... PCSA 00110. Now the problem is that Latin America being the abysmal technological hole for Earth's current "modern" societies, I have wasted hours unable to find any worthwhile pictures of other Region 4 releases, so have no basis for which to compare Epic Mickey 2 with in this regard.
Research did, however, yield that Sony was planning to build PlayStation media production facilities in South America and was openly discussing this... in 2013. Found no follow up news on that. So my current guess on this is that because Sony has/had no real production capability in Mexico or Central and South America they handled production orders and packaging through the Region 1 facilities, and thus this game got a Region 1 production code. I think what shocks me most is that in the over two years of debating this one game, no one has ever offered up this one little piece of data, "PCSA".
This still doesn't change the fact that Sony officially has Mexico as being in Region 4 of their product territories, and that this game is certainly not available for the Vita physically in Region 1. This game is nigh impossible to obtain outside of Region 4. Short of actually going to a region 4 country in person, as my friend did, and hunting down a copy at a used game shop, the odds of finding this game at a remotely reasonable price are about nil.
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